The assessment of student learning is a theme running through much of the BVA’s work. Over the last year, it has also become the centerpiece for a BVA working group in which members discuss assessment challenges and share promising developments on their own campuses. In the linked article, from the April newsletter of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, Joshua Potter, a leader and organizer of the working group, describes how the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas is using an annual Student Learning Symposium to help the institution build a narrative about the “why” of assessment and how it connects to “the complex web of initiatives at the course, department, and institution levels.”